rwbypid.d(1m)

rwbypid.d1m

Read/write calls by pid. uses dtrace.

Usage

rwbypid.d

Overview

This script tracks the number of reads and writes at the syscall level by processes, printing the totals in a report. This matches reads and writes whether they succeed or not.

Since this uses DTrace, only users with root privileges can run this command.

Examples

This samples until Ctrl-C is hit.

# rwbypid.d

Fields

PID

process ID

CMD

process name

DIR

direction, Read or Write

COUNT

total calls

Documentation

See the DTraceToolkit for further documentation under the Docs directory. The DTraceToolkit docs may include full worked examples with verbose descriptions explaining the output.

Exit

rwbypid.d will sample until Ctrl-C is hit.

Releases

115 releases since Mac OS X 10.5; the text changed 1 time.

  1. 10.5–10.5.8
  2. 10.6–26.5

Author

Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]

From dtrace 413 in macOS 26.5. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.